Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa (Development and Change Special Issues)
Current price:
$54.69
Publication Date: May 21st, 2007
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
9781405155281
Pages:
288
Description
Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private.
- Approaches public authority 'from below', exploring a variety of concrete encounters between forms of public authority and the more or less mundane practices of ordinary people
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